bbc.co.uk

Interesting to see /programmes being customised for the One Show, so that episodes of the programme have The One Show site header (and navigation)...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dw824

That's how most shows with minisites are doing it now, I remember Code 9 did too.

/www.bbc.co.uk is currently forwarding to www.bbc.co.uk/?ok

In my Firefox 3 anyway.

EDIT: URL corrected.

It's ?ok, and it always has, it's just a redirection problem which is sending it into spasms atm.

Does anyone know what bitrate the iPlayer audio plays at in high quality mode?

According to an old post on Radio Labs:

For "on-demand", you'll have spotted that we're using Flash, within the lovely embedded media player that you're familiar with for TV in the iPlayer. Under the hood is a protected MP3 stream for now: again, we're shifting over to AAC-family later in the year. The real difference here is the quality - we've significantly improved the bitrates we can offer.

For on-demand content, we're launching iPlayer with four MP3 profiles based on the content of the programme: and we're using four different bitrates for these profiles.

* Pop music (eg Radio 1 or Asian Network) is 128k stereo.

* Classical music (Radio 3) is 192k stereo.

* Stereo speech (Radio 4) is 128k stereo.

* Mono speech (Radio 5live) is 80k mono

BBC Vision have started a blog to post new site launches: http://bbcvisionsitelaunches.blogspot.com/

www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog

^ New site.

Currently in progress (and not listed on the blog yet) is the Children in Need website...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/

The Ouch website is also currently being being worked on...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/

On a loosely related note it looks like they have a new header for mothballed websites such as...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/

Re: Ouch, is that a new logo behind the peeling thing?

I like the URL used for this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/web/mothballing

Looks like they've given up on http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/ for a while as it's now back with the old layout.